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Betting On The Muse

By: Charles Bukowski

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Paperback | 6 January 1996

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“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.

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Splash	p. 13
The women	p. 15
The monkey	p. 19
Whistler	p. 27
The pleasures of the damned	p. 29
Those marvelous lunches	p. 30
Panties	p. 35
The dead flowers of myself	p. 38
Me against the world	p. 39
The snails	p. 42
Again	p. 45
The World War One movies	p. 46
To hell and back in a buggy carriage	p. 50
Stages	p. 52
Escape	p. 56
Woman on the street	p. 58
Confession of a Coward	p. 59
The secret	p. 66
Somebody else	p. 67
A View from the Quarter, March 12th, 1965	p. 76
Drink	p. 80
Black and white	p. 89
And all the snow melted	p. 95
An empire of coins	p. 97
A Nickel	p. 101
Nature poem	p. 106
Warning	p. 108
Answer to a note on the dresser	p. 109
You don't know	p. 110
Let not	p. 116
The death of a roach	p. 118
The unwritten	p. 120
Right now	p. 123
The sheep	p. 124
Piss	p. 126
Last fight	p. 128
Defining the magic	p. 131
Writing	p. 132
Views	p. 134
The strong man	p. 136
The terror	p. 141
The kiss-off	p. 143
Betting on the muse	p. 144
The Unaccommodating Universe	p. 147
Met a man on the street	p. 155
Hell is now	p. 156
The kid	p. 161
"To Serve and Protect"	p. 164
Bad day	p. 167
The dick	p. 168
Fall of the Roman Empire	p. 173
People	p. 176
Ransom	p. 178
It's difficult for them	p. 183
Think of it	p. 186
Chicken giblets	p. 188
The lover	p. 192
No win	p. 197
The Star	p. 198
An evaluation	p. 204
Neon	p. 206
They think this is the way it's done	p. 208
The pile-up	p. 209
12 minutes to post	p. 210
As the poems go	p. 211
The telephone	p. 212
Hideaway	p. 214
This dirty, valiant game	p. 221
Stay out of my slippers, you fool	p. 225
The voice	p. 227
The bard of San Francisco	p. 233
On biographies	p. 236
A real break	p. 238
Avoiding humanity	p. 240
What Happened to the Loving, Laughing Girl in the Gingham Dress?	p. 244
The luck of the word	p. 259
Bad form	p. 261
Last call	p. 263
The shape of the Star	p. 268
Upon reading a critical review	p. 271
Paris, what?	p. 273
A social call	p. 275
The girls we followed home	p. 277
Slow starter	p. 279
Barstool	p. 283
Look back, look up	p. 286
Paris	p. 290
The good soul	p. 292
Lousy mail	p. 294
The Suicide	p. 296
Confession of a genius	p. 309
Traffic report	p. 316
Hands	p. 318
Final score	p. 320
The misanthrope	p. 322
Putting it to bed	p. 325
The trash can	p. 327
Block	p. 329
Storm	p. 331
The similarity	p. 333
My Madness	p. 334
Pastoral	p. 337
Finis	p. 339
That rare good moment	p. 342
Doesn't seem like much	p. 345
Strange luck	p. 347
Until it hurts	p. 350
Death in the Afternoon	p. 351
The gods	p. 360
Floss, brush and flush	p. 362
A great show	p. 366
Epilogue	p. 371
Fante	p. 373
It got away	p. 375
The luck of the draw	p. 376
Let it enfold you	p. 378
The 13th month	p. 388
Finis, II	p. 390
The observer	p. 391
August, 1993	p. 393
This night	p. 394
Betting on now	p. 396
Decline	p. 398
In the mouth of the tiger	p. 399
The laughing heart	p. 400
A challenge to the dark	p. 401
So now?	p. 402
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Betting On The Muse

At a Glance

Paperback

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You Can Find This Book In

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